Plus Dhoni's landmarks as captain, Jadeja's record for left-arm spinners, the most successful IPL pairs and more...

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The number of bowlers who have the distinction of claiming the most wickets in an Indian Premier League match. On April 6, 2019, in Hyderabad, Mumbai Indians’ paceman Alzarri Joseph, making his debut in the competition, became the third bowler to claim a six-wicket haul in the IPL. His 6/12 is also the best figures by a bowler in IPL history. Overall, it was the eighth-best figures in Twenty20 cricket and the second-best on Asian soil. Incidentally, Joseph also became the first West Indian to claim a six-or-more wicket haul in T20 cricket.

Best bowling in IPL cricket

Bowling figures (overs)

Bowler

For

Against

Venue

Date

IPL match #

Age

Result

6/12 (3.4)

Alzarri Joseph

Mumbai Indians

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Hyderabad

April 6, 2019

Debut

22 years, 168 days

Won

6/14 (4)

Sohail Tanvir

Rajasthan Royals

Chennai Super Kings

Jaipur

May 4, 2008

3

23 years, 144 days

Won

6/19 (4)

Adam Zampa

Rising Pune Supergiants

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Visakhapatnam

May 10, 2016

2

24 years, 40 days

Won

Note: Joseph is the second-youngest in wthe IPL to take a five-wicket haul after Jaydev Unadkat (21 years, 204 days in 2013).

100

The number of matches won as a captain by M. S. Dhoni in the IPL. He thus became the first player to reach this landmark in IPL history. He achieved this at Jaipur during Chennai Super Kings’ game against Rajasthan Royals on April 11, 2019.

Summary of M. S. Dhoni’s 100 IPL victories as captain

For

Span

Matches

Won

Lost

No result

Win percentage

Chennai Super Kings

2008-19

152

95

56

1

62.50

Rising Pune Supergiants

2016

14

5

9

0

35.71

Total

2008-19

166

100

65

1

60.24

Players with most wins as captain in IPL

Wins

Captain

Teams

Total matches

Matches lost

No result

Win percentage

100

M. S. Dhoni

Chennai Super Kings, Rising Pune Supergiants

166

65

1

60.24

71

Gautam Gambhir

Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders

129

58

0

55.04

55

Rohit Sharma

Mumbai Indians

95

40

0

57.89

46

Virat Kohli

Royal Challengers Bangalore

103

54

3

44.66

35

Adam Gilchrist

Deccan Chargers, Kings XI Punjab

74

39

0

47.30

31

Shane Warne

Rajasthan Royals

55

24

0

56.36

30

Sachin Tendulkar

Mumbai Indians

51

21

0

58.82

100

The number of wickets claimed by Ravindra Jadeja in the IPL. He became the 13th bowler to reach this landmark in the competition and the third left-arm bowler after Ashish Nehra (106) and Zaheer Khan (102). However, Jadeja is the first-left arm spinner in IPL history to reach this milestone.

Most wickets by left-arm spinners in the IPL

Wickets

Bowler

Matches

Average

Strike rate

Runs per over

Span

100

Ravindra Jadeja

161

29.41

23.15

7.62

2008-19

89

Pragyan Ojha

92

26.21

21.34

7.37

2008-15

64

Axar Patel

73

29.58

23.77

7.47

2011-19

58

Shakib Al Hasan

61

27.57

22.16

7.47

2011-19

47

Shadab Jakati

59

30.85

23.09

8.02

2009-17

200

The total number matches played by Mumbai Indians in T20 cricket. It became the first side to reach this landmark in T20 history during its IPL match at the Wankhede Stadium against Rajasthan Royals on April 13, 2019.

Summary of Mumbai Indians’ T20 matches

Tournament

Span

Matches

Won

Lost

No result

Win percentage

IPL

2008-19*

178

102

76

0

57.30

Champions League

2010-14

22

11

9

2

50.00

Total

2008-19*

200

113

85

2

56.50

Teams appearing in most T20 matches

Team

Span

Matches

Won

Lost

No result

Tied

Win percentage

Mumbai Indians

2008-19

200

113

85

2

0

56.50

Somerset

2003-18

199

96

92

9

2

48.24

Hampshire

2003-18

194

98

83

10

3

50.51

Royal Challengers Bangalore

2008-19

188

86

99

3

0

45.74

Sussex

2008-19

187

88

85

13

1

47.06

Kolkata Knight Riders

2003-18

187

99

87

1

0

50.25

Note: Tied matches are the ones that were not decided by a super over.

2,793

The number of runs aggregated by Virat Kohli and A. B. de Villiers in partnership in IPL cricket. This is now the most by any pair in IPL history. During their 85-run stand against Kings XI Punjab at Mohali, they surpassed the previous highest tally of 2,787 runs between Kohli and Chris Gayle.

Most successful pairs in IPL cricket

Runs

Pair

Innings

Average

Highest partnership

100-run partnerships

50-run partnerships

For

2,793

Virat Kohli and A. B. De Villiers

65

45.05

229*

9

10

Royal Challengers Bangalore

2,787

Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle

59

52.58

204*

9

12

Royal Challengers Bangalore

2,357

Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner

50

48.10

139

6

14

Sunrisers Hyderabad

1,906

Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa

48

39.71

158

5

10

Kolkata Knight Riders

1,399

Suresh Raina and M. S. Dhoni

51

30.41

74

0

10

Chennai Super Kings

Queries Corner

Deepak Chahar recently bowled 20 dot balls for Chennai Super Kings against Kolkata Knight Riders at Chennai. Is this the most bowled by a bowler in an IPL match? - Surya Kumar, Tirupati.

Deepak Chahar’s effort of delivering 20 dot balls is the most by a bowler in IPL history. A few others, namely, Ashish Nehra, Fidel Edwards, Munaf Patel, Morne Morkel, S. Sreenath, Zaheer Khan and Ankit Rajpoot, have bowled 19 dot balls in an IPL match.

Has any batsman managed to score a fifty during the powerplay in this IPL? - Ramu Aniyan, Mysore.

Only Sunrisers Hyderabad’s David Warner has been able to manage that during his 37-ball 69 against Rajasthan at Hyderabad. Warner in the first six overs was able to hit 52 runs in 27 balls, with eight fours and one six. The next best is 48 not out in 23 balls by Chris Gayle for Kings XI Punjab against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Mohali. Warner’s teammate and opening partner Jonny Bairstow has the third best score of 47 not out in 25 balls at Delhi, followed by Rajasthan Royals’ Jos Buttler who made 43 not out in 22 balls against Punjab at Jaipur.

Pakistan’s Mohd. Rizwan scored a duck in between his two centuries in the recent ODI series in the UAE against Australia. Is this a first time in ODI cricket? – Ramesh Narayan, Surat.

Mohd. Rizwan in fact became the sixth batsman to register a duck in between two ODI centuries. The others to do so were West Indian Phil Simmons in 1992, India’s Sachin Tendulkar in 2001, Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara in 2008, West Indian Chris Gayle in 2008 and England’s Jonathan Trott in 2011.

How often has Pakistan been whitewashed in an ODI series? – Sameer Khilani, Mumbai.

Overall, this is the 11th time Pakistan has managed to lose all matches in an ODI bilateral series of three or more games. However, this the fourth time it has lost a series 0-5. On one other occasion it has lost 0-4 and on six occasions it has lost 0-3.

Note: All figures above are updated as on April 13, 2019.

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